Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Oh er telly 's got a buzz on it and I could n't get it off , I think I made it worse .
2 Oh dear , well I could say er work has got a lot easier for a start , a lot easier and they ai n't as , they ai n't as , there ai n't so much night work as there used to be .
3 I mean , their loan periods are somewhere about twenty five years whereby you probably realise in this country if a young er person wants to start a firm and he 's go to the bank they 're not gon na give him much scope at all !
4 But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more .
5 If the husband 's shirt has lost a button , he says , ’ Mary , Mary , why is my shirt without a button ’ , to the Black ’ girl ’ not to his wife .
6 Where the defendant 's negligence has placed a person in danger and the plaintiff has attempted a rescue , the court will be slow to find the rescuer contributorily negligent .
7 A MYSTERY Santa 's honesty has saved a pensioner 's holiday of a lifetime .
8 * The ( US ) Chemical Manufacturer 's Association has published a survey claiming that the release of toxic pollutants to the environment from the chemical industry was reduced by 35 per cent in the four-year period ending 1990 .
9 The Lord Chancellor 's Department has produced a consultation paper proposing a new estate in land — commonhold — following a preliminary study of " condominium' legislation in other parts of the world .
10 ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’
11 Is it ‘ My Dad 's Thribbler Has Got A Puncture ’ ?
12 The borough 's team hopes to maximise a mother 's chances of continuing to care for her children by providing independent counselling and advocacy to help her survive the investigation intact .
13 Barker 's drama does deliver a message even simpler than his point about the importance of the national soul .
14 Unfortunately Ken 's recovery has suffered a setback after seeing us still in the title race with only fourteen-sixteenths of the season remaining .
15 My dad 's friend 's had a heart attack so he thinks he 's going to have one too .
16 An airman 's wife has told a jury how her husband told her he started a fire which caused nineteen million pounds damage to an airbase .
17 Girolamo Cavazzoni 's arrangement of Passereau 's well-known chanson Il est bel e bon ( track 8 ) and his father Marcantonio 's Madame vous avez ( track 11 ) contrast sharply with the same composer 's freely composed Recercare primo ( track 6 ) , in which Marshall draws the instrument 's ripieno stops to create a sound of impressive brilliance .
18 But we can not forget that in fabliau terms the wife of the Shipman 's Tale can be credited as a successful trickster ; in so far as the Shipman 's Tale does develop an antifeminist perspective in the ways suggested above , it enhances the antifeminist possibilities of a genre that is characteristically only playfully antifeminist .
19 The contemporary women 's movement has constructed a list of seven demands :
20 Because of his success in Hollywood , Korngold 's music seems to breed a sense of unease among the musically established .
21 But he did not : the man 's life has become a fable of great imagination and his prowess as a winemaker has assumed almost mythical proportions .
22 ‘ Mark 's ma has got a livery stable — she 's a real leathery Jane .
23 That development entailed a recognition that the concentration upon language by the school of logical positivism , within which Ayer 's dismissal of religious belief emerged , might not so much show up the meaninglessness of theology as elicit its own particular logic Wittgenstein 's thought appears to show a progression from concentrating upon language in order to exclude certain forms of thought — as in Ayer 's exclusion of metaphysics — towards concentrating upon language in order to make sense of those different forms in a way that was sensitive to their particular nature .
24 The school 's headmaster has made a complaint about the use of the photograph to Mr Bates ' campaign office .
25 Mr Murrell 's approach aims to combine a series of investments within a school fees portfolio .
26 Some successful initiatives have happened — for example , Guy 's Hospital has employed a nurse practitioner at night to supervise giving intravenous drugs and filter calls to junior staff .
27 There are still comparatively few coherent introductions to the " new " stylistics — that is , discourse stylistics , and Lee 's book aims to fill a gap .
28 A male Couch 's spadefoot calls to attract a female to the pond .
29 Freeman 's account seems to have a number of unfortunate consequences .
30 Also locked , but the ship 's company has volunteered a day 's work tomorrow , so some , including the ship 's doctor , must see inside tonight .
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